Florida Football Insiders

Former Bucs GM Dominik out at ESPN: headed back to a team?

The latest “salary purge” at ESPN (their third in the last 18 months) claimed many prominent writers and on air personnel across several sports. F.F.I. has confirmed that former Buccaneers GM Mark Dominik was among the casualties in this latest go-round, one that numbered almost 100.

Although Dominik has yet to acknowledge his departure publicly (he did not return a message left by F.F.I.) we were first alerted that his status might have changed when he changed his Twitter handle over the weekend from @MarkdominikESPN to @MarkdominikNFL.

It was also curious to us that Dominik stopped tweeting midway through the opening round of the NFL Draft on Thursday night and as of 5:30pm on Monday still had not resumed tweeting anything original.

When “NFL Insiders,” the ESPN TV show Dominik has been an analyst on for the last three years aired on Monday afternoon, he was not part of the cast and there was no explanation as to where he was. We saw that as further confirmation.

Then, a separate ESPN source later Monday confirmed to F.F.I. that Dominik was part of the layoffs last week.

So the question now becomes, does Dominik try to stay in television somewhere or does he want to try to hook on with an NFL front office?